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How is time changing insurers appetite for private assets?
25 December 2024Matthew Bass, head of private alternatives at AllianceBernstein (AB), discusses with Insurance Asset Risk the trends in the private asset space, insurer's changing tastes and his predictions for 2025.
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Exploring the demand in affordable housing
23 December 2024Mike Lohmeier, chief investment officer at IMPACT Community Capital, explains the current state of play in affordable housing investments in the US, and compares it to other real estate asset classes
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Moody's downgrade of France, the more things change the more they stay the same
18 December 2024Insurers and their asset managers react to the ramifications of the rating change going forward
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Insurers are picking up banks' fossil fuel financing slack
16 December 2024Rainforest Action Network says there is a "shocking lack of transparency about what insurers are underwriting and investing in"
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Does a litigious society pose a greater risk to insurers than global warming?
12 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk recently sat down with Chin Liu, director of insurance-linked securities (ILS), fixed income solutions and responsible investment research at Amundi US to discuss why ILS can be a good investment for life insurers and why eagle-eyed lawyers can pose a bigger risk to insurers than climate change.
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CIO Interview: Conning worried the Fed is not paying enough attention to inflation
09 December 2024Insurance Asset Risk sat down with Cindy Beaulieu, Conning's CIO for North America, to discuss the recent presidential election, the effect a second Trump administration could have on insurers, and the prospects for asset classes and investment risk in 2025.
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Japan's insurers put their weight behind plan for an 'asset management nation'
04 December 2024Tokyo wants Japan to be a nation known for good asset management - a goal that its insurers manifestly desire too
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Til tech do us part - are AI investments a love story for the ages?
02 December 2024Tech stocks and related companies have had ups and downs, with disappoints, broken promises and a summer wobble - but is it love that's here to stay?
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Europe vs the US in 2025: Which is the better placed to boom?
27 November 2024"Lost decade" of poor European equities is over according to DWS's new global CIO, but US could be better placed for growth
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Green shoots for insurers' understanding of natural capital?
25 November 2024Comparisons between investors' grip on climate and biodiversity show there's plenty of areas in which to grow on the latter, but lessons and benefits can be taken from net-zero approaches
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- L&G asset management at "inflection point" as private markets investing gathers speed
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- Irish Life and Canada Life invest in private markets transition fund
- La Caisse backs US industrial outdoor storage partnership
- Achmea Pension and Life Insurance signs reinsurance deals to optimise investment portfolio
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- Apollo, Brookfield, KKR and Blackstone spell out Asian plans
- Decarbonisation is financially worth it, PGIM's Townsend says
- APAC Weekly: Japanese lifers' diversified use of asset-intensive reinsurance